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MEG-A Project The MEG-A project investigates the communities of the earliest megalith builders in Akkar (Lebanon)

Blink blink, the very last field season of the MEG-A project is behind us🥲🥲🥲 In the photo, the last, very brave and amaz...
28/07/2026

Blink blink, the very last field season of the MEG-A project is behind us🥲🥲🥲 In the photo, the last, very brave and amazing participants of the Polish project Khalil Walid, Emilia Jastrzębska, Teodozja Rzeuska, Lausz and Wygnańska. Not on the photo but equally amazing: Bogdana Milic , Roukaya Mouhamad, Oleksiak. Hail to all of them! Now, it's time to process all these amazing materials that we gathered between 2022 and 2026.

Through the obsidian glass. An exciting Neolithic site we discovered during our survey takes on a whole new meaning than...
12/07/2026

Through the obsidian glass. An exciting Neolithic site we discovered during our survey takes on a whole new meaning thanks to the studies conducted by a lithic specialist Bogdana Milic

07/07/2026

MEG-A is in its final phase but it doesn't mean our work stops here. I had the pleasure of participating today in a meeting with Karam representative of the General Directorate of Antiquities, Elsy Trad and Antoun - the mayor of the Menjez Municipality in Menjez Heritage House . We were talking about the future of the past and it looks exciting. I had

Something is cooking up in the MEG-A studies!🤓 Teodozja Rzeuska, Emilia Jastrzębska and Zuzanna Wygnańska had an amazing...
04/03/2026

Something is cooking up in the MEG-A studies!🤓 Teodozja Rzeuska, Emilia Jastrzębska and Zuzanna Wygnańska had an amazing and super insightful time at a 2-day ceramology meeting at the end of February with Dr Georges Mouamar (CNRS ) at Archéorient, Maison de l'Orient et de la méditerranée in Lyon! The topic: pottery from the megalithic tombs in Akkar. Many thanks to Georges for his time and passion to share his expertise! 🤠The meeting was organised thanks to Narodowe Centrum Nauki grant no 2020/39/I/HS3/02993.

Meet the Polish MEG-A team! Director of the Polish team and co-PI of the Swiss-Polish MEG-A Project co-funded by Narodow...
28/07/2025

Meet the Polish MEG-A team! Director of the Polish team and co-PI of the Swiss-Polish MEG-A Project co-funded by Narodowe Centrum Nauki: a zealous seeker of megalithic burial sites, a relentless inventor of difficult tasks. But also a logistical powerhouse, a purveyor of provision (and hydration!), and a travel agency specialised in Lebanon. All rolled into one person - Dr Zuza Wygnanska (Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN). Narodowe Centrum Nauki, Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Beirut

Hunting high and low: During the June-July season, the MEG-A survey team (a Polish leg of the Polish-Swiss project), inc...
24/07/2025

Hunting high and low: During the June-July season, the MEG-A survey team (a Polish leg of the Polish-Swiss project), including Zuzanna Wygnańska Filip Wałdoch, Khalil, Mohamad, Kahwagi Janho and Johnny Chaccour, is pressing on with their research on the Akkar uplands. This year's results delivered the breakthrough we've been looking for for nearly four years! It appears the megalith builders didn't just construct their tombs in the area of modern-day Menjez, but also across the basalt hills along the Nahr al-Kabir river. Finding extensive megalithic necropolises with dozens of tombs truly illuminates the practices of these people! Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN Narodowe Centrum Nauki Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Beirut Université de Genève Menjez Heritage House (Photos: Jan Kurzawa )

What does the soil say?🧐We take samples from soil layers to uncover what the environment looked like in the past. What g...
11/07/2025

What does the soil say?🧐

We take samples from soil layers to uncover what the environment looked like in the past. What grew here, was it dry, wet, or... was something else going on?👀

Photo: Jan Kurzawa

Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Instytut Botaniki im. W. Szafera Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Krakowie

Successful and happy coring team after the mission impossible accomplished! Thank you Mr. Muhammad Abdalla, the mayor of...
07/07/2025

Successful and happy coring team after the mission impossible accomplished! Thank you Mr. Muhammad Abdalla, the mayor of Municipality of Kouchara for your kindness and support 🤗

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